- NSW Australia. Last month a friend began to cross a flooded river in his car with me in it. I jumped out because I'd been caught on a flooded causeway before. I now have a letter from his lawyer asking for damages because the car was washed off the causeway and written off.
- My thirteen year old step brother and ten year old step-sister molested my five year old brother with pens and markers while their older teenage brothers held me down and made me watch. Mom won’t let me contact the police because she denies the abuse is happening and wants to get rid of me.
- [UPDATE][NJ] I work in an office with no heat and have an autoimmune disease that already makes me susceptible to cold intolerance. Can they terminate me?
- Deaf man suing my bar because we did not have interpreter available during a free comedy shows.
- Had a stroke in the Bahamas and woke to $55,000 in charges on my Bank of America credit card from hospital, however, I never gave them my credit card
- [NH] Sold my motorcycle in 2013, it was found dumped somewhere in 2016 and now I'm ordered to appear in court
- Hired a moving company to move my things. Received my belongings with 15k worth of furniture damaged and 30k worth of camera equipment stolen out of the moving boxes and boxes, sealed back up. Did some research on the company and it turns out there are other people who have this exact same story.
- OREGON, USA - Repeatedly groped by customer and management has failed to do anything
- My fiancé was raped and her boss revealed it to her coworkers without her consent. What can we do?
- Is it parental alienation to not let the (unmarried) dad into the delivery room? (FL)
- FL, USA. Realtor is telling my SO to sign a mortgage, then transfer it to her sister since her sister didn't qualify.
- Landlord is telling us to move out, along with all our things in 2 weeks, for up to 3 months while they "upgrade" our apartment. They are only offering us rent reimbursement and nothing else.
- Grandpa was declared mentally unwell and state appointed a guardian who sold all of his possessions and the rest of his money somehow magically disappeared.
- Police officer ex figured out my password and is stalking my Snapchat two years after we broke up. What can I do?
- Daugther is a Meth Addict and wasting away, what can parents do? Please help!
- I think I'm caught in a scam
- [MA] roommate/ animal rights advocate threw away my possessions that doesn’t align with her ideology.
- [WI] Pizza delivery guy slipped outside my house on the curb during snow storm and presumably broke his ankle. Can he sue us?
- My mother has mentioned she’s writing a book, somewhat of an autobiography, she casually & subtly mentioned that some events of trauma would be mentioned in it (my rape) I do not want this published.
- Someone from reddit is threatening me using an encrypted email
- My father was murdered. Nobody was ever caught. I now am confident who did it. (cross posted to AskReddit).
- I'm at my wits end with my pot smoking neighbors
- I was bitten by a customers dog at work in a large retail pharmacy
| Posted: 01 Dec 2018 11:59 PM PST Long time LA reader here, and I'm pretty sure this is a case of my (probably ex) friend being an idiot on a lawyer's letterhead or not telling his lawyer the whole story. When I'm in the middle of it, it feels a lot different though. Early in November we went to pick up car parts after work that my friend I'll call Aaron (because his name's Aaron and I think he's being an idiot) had bought on eBay. We had to go through some back roads to get to the property and picked it up and all was well. It'd been raining for part of the day but really picked up when we were loading the parts, and we got to a causeway we'd passed only an hour before but it was now covered in what looked like half a metre of water and we stopped. I'd been navigating and knew we could back up and take another much longer route, even though the highway was just a bit on the other side of the causeway. There was no way I'd go through the water as it looked, but because I'd been caught on a causeway 20 years ago in less water and had my car pushed off into the river I didn't want to risk it. I didn't lose that car but it's one of the scariest moments of my life. I said we had to turn back and could take a different road 10km around but that would take us via a bridge over the same river. Aaron decided to push on and started moving and I panicked and got straight out. It was FAR more water than I'd had to go through when I near lost my car and life before. I got out well before the water though so I didn't let water in the car btw. Aaron didn't even get halfway across and the water pushed his car off the side, rolled it completely over and it ended upright on the bank 50m downstream. He was EXTREMELY lucky not to drown, and I ran down & helped him out. Immediately he was aggressive and combative because he said with my weight in the car he'd have made it across. Admittedly I'm 130kg+ but his car is a 1650kg commodore wagon with a couple hundred kg of eBay parts in the back so it's not like I'd have made much difference. We phoned for help and the river went down within an hour and made it across the causeway by foot. We haven't spoken since and he's avoided me in places we usually go. But on Friday I received a letter from a lawyer I know is real in our town, but sounds like it was written by my friend. It's asking for $50k for the car and personal damages because I made the car unsafe by getting out. It was a 1997 commodore, maybe worth $1500 on a good day. I think he's being a dickhead. Someone reassure me, it's not up to me to sit in someone's car when they're doing something dumb is it? Ideally I'd like to post him this link and responses if they're what I think they'll be. I want to contact his lawyer to tell them Aaron is either being an idiot on their letterhead but in the off chance it's for real should I get my own lawyer to draw up my own 'stop this you bunch of goons' letter? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Dec 2018 09:03 AM PST Abuse has been going on for a while. The backstory: My five year old brother and I am our mom's biological kids. She married a man with four children from a past marriage: A ten year old girl, thirteen year old boy, sixteen year old boy, and a fifteen year old boy. I am thirteen. Ever since my mom married this guy his children have been abusing us, but it wasn't always this bad. It used to be more minor. For example, one time one of the teenage boys threw his backpack full of textbooks at my brother's head so hard it made him bleed. He called that an "accident" and the parents believed him. Another time they spilled a bit of boiling oil on my leg and laughed about it. Another "accident". You see what I mean? Things that were really intentional but could be perceived as carelessness. If I told my mom they would do these things on purpose she'd dismiss me, call me irrational, and say "There's no one in this house out to get you, no one's doing anything on purpose." If I defend myself I am punished harshly because they think I'm violent for no reason and the reason I'm like this is because of lack of discipline(in the words of my mom's husband).. One night the fifteen year old got in my bed that three of us share. He started touching me inappropriately and I woke up. I may have said something like "Get off" or "Please stop", I can't really remember. All I know is I panicked and reached over to the dresser to grab the nearest object, which happened to be a snow glob, and smashed it on his head. The metal cut his eye and he slit his foot on the glass that landed on the floor. My mom let her husband hit the shit out of me and kicked me out of the room permanently. Now I sleep on the couch in the living room. The last straw was when, about a week ago, I woke up in the morning to screaming in teenager's room. The parents left early for work. The other kids were pinning my brother down. I tried to help him, and the two eldest boys held me down. The ten year old girl and thirteen year old boy forced pens and markers in him and there was nothing I could do. I tried to call the police with the house phone but the teenagers stopped me using force. We had to lock ourselves in the bathroom until the parents came home. When they did I tried calling the police again but that time my mom grabbed me and told me I couldn't call them while her husband disconnected the house phone. They took my phone and anything else I could use to call for help. (Side note: I'm using the family computer to type this- and I have to be really careful they don't see this post-so it might take a while before I can read the responses.) The parents say if I call the police they'll hit me, and that I have no reason to call the police, and if I do I'll be the one taken away. When I told my little brother, "Tell Mom what happened!", he shook his head and didn't say anything. Then our Mom told everyone to stay away from me, including my brother, because I'm mentally unstable and I was going to be out of this house soon because her husband says so. I don't know what they're going to do to me. I don't know what they mean by they're going to get rid of me but right now I want to keep my brother safe. A few questions: How do I prove the KIDS are abusive? What if I get ahold of the police and they investigate but my family says its not true and we have to stay here? Or they somehow kick me out of the house? How can I get me and my brother away from this family for good? And how the hell do I get the police without a phone or anything? We live in Texas. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Dec 2018 08:44 AM PST You can view the previous post here Hi legal advice, I wanted to thank you all for your kind words and help with this matter. I e-mailed HR the following day (Black Friday) and did not get a response until the following Wednesday. HR forwarded my e-mail to benefits whom informed me I could qualify for intermittent FMLA leave, which is unpaid. I e-mailed them back and sent some clarification that I wasn't looking for unpaid leave but simply an accommodation. Benefits sent my e-mail back to HR. HR called me when I was on the clock to clarify exactly what it is I was looking for (just a heater that had to stay up front since the nurses like to take the two we have in the building). She informed me she would forward my email to the Executive VP of Operations as she handled those matters. On Friday she e-mailed me asking when I was available to talk. I told her I would be available tomorrow as I wanted to speak when I was home and not in office surrounded by my co-workers. She e-mailed me back today to clarify that all I was looking for was a space heater to stay in my area and said she immediately sent an e-mail to my manager to buy one before the week is out. She said she will follow-up with me at the end of this week to ensure that it is done. She stated she will not disclose anything about my health to them, but just that is an accommodation. To the redditor that suggested I may have Raynaud's. I have looked into it and scheduled an appointment with my primary care doctor for next week. The heat is scheduled to be fixed this week. Fingers crossed. Thank you all again for your advice and help!!! [link] [comments]  |
| Deaf man suing my bar because we did not have interpreter available during a free comedy shows. Posted: 02 Dec 2018 03:29 AM PST Man claims to have been denied accommodation at my bar back in June of 2018. I'm in LA County in California. He says he asked if we had an interpreter for him during a free comedy show and we said we did not. He did not actually ask us this because I was bartending at the time and I would remember this but we did not in fact have a translator. I've never heard of having to accommodate for deaf people during a free comedy show that a different company hosted. I searched this guy up and can see he has a bunch of open cases against other companies for the same reason. His lawyer specializes in ADA cases. Our court date is April in 2020 and need to know what steps we can take. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Dec 2018 09:40 AM PST This should be fun so strap in. I was in Nassaus Bahamas and suffered a stroke unexpectedly. I am young (low 30's)and an overall pretty active and healthy so a stroke was the last thing that I would expect it to happen at this time in my life. So when the stroke hit the left side of my body went 'limp'. I wasn't able to talk, walk, or function … it is similar to being paralyzed and all around sucks. The hotel thankfully called an ambulance which brought me to a hospital. Here's where the fun begins. My girlfriend (lets call her T) went to give them my health insurance card when I was admitted which covers me internationally but the hospital refused my insurance and said that I don't have coverage and insisted on cash payment or they would not treat me. When you are having a stroke minutes count so she give them whatever they wanted to treat me This is when T gave them my credit cardimportant note T is not an authorized cardholder on my credit card account. She does not have her own card nor is she an authorized signer or user on my account she simply went into my wallet while I was unconscious and gave it to themSo I was not able to step in and deal with the situation. I woke up hours later to T crying by my bedside. She was explaining to me the situation, even though I was conscience I was not able to process nor have the energy to respond. She was explaining that they would chase her down the hallway for $ 5000 $10,000 $20,000 at a time whatever they could as if buying a used car, it was surreal and makes me so mad but she did not have any other options at the time she notified my parents who showed up a day later. My father was raising hell about them not taking my insurance when he arrived but it was not the time to argue and made arrangements to get me back to the states. T is not an authorized user on my credit card account but she was doing what she thought was best for me while trying not to die. I think anyone else would have done the same Long story short I was transported via air ambulance back to the states Pompano Beach Florida where my health insurance took over and now that the dust has settled I have $55,000 in charges on my credit card from said hospital in the Bahamas. I have spoken to my insurance company and they said the hospital should have taken the insurance when I was admitted but the hospital prefers cash because insurance companies will pay discounted rates whereas cash out of pocket is subject to whatever the hospital charges. So the rub is the insurance company will not reimburse me for the full amount as that is not what they would have paid the hospital directly Since T is not an authorized user and she signed all the credit card receipts I already attempted to chargeback the charges but the credit card company has rejected this as a claim stating I have benefited from the services at the hospital and it is not considered fraud. I'm not trying to stiff the hospital on their bill, rather I want my money back and have my health insurance company pay them what they should have been be paid. My blood boils that they chased a grieving emotional girl for money knowing what they were doing. They took complete advantage of the situation Does anyone out there have any advice or work for Bank of America disputes dept that can help guide me anyway or should I bother contacting a lawyer in the Bahamas? I assume I have to deal with an attorney over there not here, correct? If so a contact or advice on how to find one over there would be great. Complete sidenote on where I'm at today. I am in rehab full time and started walking a few weeks ago for the first time since the stroke it's not a pretty walk but gets me around my left arm is still flaccid but starting to move so I'm encouraged and the DRs think about six to 12 months to get full movement back, they say being young is one when the advantages in rehab ..I guess silver lining?? .. still sucks though LOL I typed this post using voice dictation software apologies for any typos or grammatical errors or formatting I sucked with grammar before the stroke :) [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Dec 2018 04:59 AM PST I sold my first motorcycle to some guy from MA back in 2013 and proceeded to use the money to buy a new one. I'm not sure if I still have the bill of sale, but I do have text messages from the guy still saved on my phone where he said he would come look at it and then rode it home after buying it. Anyways I guess in 2016 a towing company pulled the motorcycle out of a pond or something and came after me for the charges. I told them I had sold it to someone and they said they would sell the bike if I didn't pay them and I thought that was the end of that. Today I received a letter in the mail stating I am to appear in court for allegedly abandoning a vehicle without paying for the costs of removing, storing, and/or destroying the vehicle as required by law RSA 262:40-c. Any advice? Obviously try to locate any records, but I have a feeling those are long gone. All I have are text messages with this guy that I sold it to. I've never been to court in my life so I don't know if I should get an attorney or if I can just show up and tell the judge my story. Thanks for any help. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Dec 2018 05:07 PM PST Portland, Oregon is the location happened. The moving company was hired to move furniture/camera equipment to Las Vegas and none of the camera equipment made it to the destination. The things that did make it were either crushed boxes or damaged (brand new) Restoration Hardware furniture. What can I do to get reimbursed for the damage they caused to the furniture and the stolen equipment? Others who has this same thing happen with the same company GTS Shipping were only able to get 60 cents per lb of stolen property. Looks like they changed their name to NW Relocation after getting complaints of theft and damaged property. I posted a photo of my yellow bag that I kept some of the camera equipment in which showed up to its destination completely empty of all its contents. I know that does not prove anything but this is what happened and I hope that people who consider hiring this company will see this. https://imgur.com/a/rCKExNr some photos of the damage Edit: Since making this post, I've been contacted by local News outlets in Portland. For those who have a similar experience, I would love to hear about it and get the information out there to prevent more people from being scammed. I would be happy to pass along any information to reporters/investigators. [link] [comments]  |
| OREGON, USA - Repeatedly groped by customer and management has failed to do anything Posted: 02 Dec 2018 08:05 AM PST Backstory: In July, a Friday night regular at the restaurant work at grabbed my stomach and asked me if I was pregnant. I removed his hands and told him not to touch me. I let management know and they said he was rude but to brush it off. In August, the man corners me in a side station and slapped my behind so hard, it left a bruise. I was dumb for not taking photos so I have no evidence. I let management know, but by the time I had informed management, he was already leaving. He was not told he was unwelcome any of the following nights he was in. There was no video evidence to corroborate my story so they temporarily took me off of Friday nights. The district manager told me I could defend myself if it happened again. Every Friday I got stuck working thereafter, I managed to avoid his table, but it caused me a ton of stress. Fast forward to Friday night (two nights ago), I wasn't aware of where he was sitting and was talking to another table and he groped my breast "trying to get my attention". I let loose and, louder than intended, told him not to touch me and never to touch me again. I told him he already bruised my butt and he shouldn't even be allowed in there. I immediately went to inform management about what happened and the man denied it, saying he grabbed my arm and didn't know why I was causing a scene. Management told him not to touch servers and to vocally address them. He did not ask the man to leave. The server in that section became aggressive and irate to the point of harassment. She told the boss I had humiliated her table in front of everyone and that he had done nothing wrong. She was extremely hostile the rest of the shift and the following day (yesterday). Management did nothing about that either. I finally told the manager on duty on Friday night that he either needed to send her home or me, and he refused. I threatened to call the district manager if he didn't and he told me to go home. When I went in to talk to the general manager, he pulled me in the office and told me I wasn't to yell at guests. I told him what had happened and he seemed surprised. He said he was under the impression the man had touched my arm. He took me off of Friday nights and said "The older dirty men get, the more they think they can get away with." Though it wasn't intended, it felt like he justified the man's actions. He said he would talk to the other server about the harassment before he left and never did (to my knowledge). The restaurant I work in has failed to protect me three times now, from this man and now from this hostile coworker. I don't know if I even have a case. I know I am looking elsewhere for employment. I am trying to get the district manager's email address. Nobody, thus far, has been willing to give it to me. Management denied me a team member handbook. I don't know where to go from here. Tldr; A customer has repeatedly groped me and management has failed to act multiple times. Sorry for poor formatting. Posting from phone. [link] [comments]  |
| My fiancé was raped and her boss revealed it to her coworkers without her consent. What can we do? Posted: 01 Dec 2018 11:59 PM PST We are in Montreal, Canada. My apologies if my English is not grammatically correct. My SO is currently doing her residency at a teaching hospital here, and has been granted an extended leave due to the trauma she endured. Her attending physician is the only person who was told for obvious reasons pertaining to her absence, and it was made clear to her that this is sensitive information she does not want retold to anyone else (we have this in writing via email as proof). A few days following, both her and I received multiple concerned messages regarding the sexual assault from 2 of her coworkers. I believe this is only possible if her attending had revealed this information, as my SO made sure to go to a different hospital for treatment. We would like to consider pressing charges. Is that possible? Can we use the fact that the influx of messages reminding her of the attack was detrimental to her recovery? She no longer wants to return to that hospital, and although I am not a doctor and I don't understand the match process well myself (and I can't ask her in these tough times, obviously), I imagine getting a new residency spot would be tough correct? (and force her to explain the situation to future employers). This is not only affecting her mental health but her education and work as well. Does it hurt our chances that the defendant in question is a well-known physician with ties to McGill University? Thank you. [link] [comments]  |
| Is it parental alienation to not let the (unmarried) dad into the delivery room? (FL) Posted: 02 Dec 2018 06:46 AM PST I'm due to deliver soon and my relationship with the dad has been contentious for months now (including periods up to 9 weeks at a time when he's ghosted me entirely). He's never been to an appointment despite me texting him every date and time well in advance (except for one where he showed up late and then got mad at me that I didn't make them wait). And he's repeatedly said that he didn't want to be involved until he knew for sure the baby was his because his family and friends were worried he wouldn't bounce back if it wasn't (it definitely is...I wasn't seeing anyone else for months before dating him). Basically, I've been led on, ignored, and have taken a lot of unfair criticism (implying I'm lying and have been sleeping around) and it's made this pregnancy stressful and humiliating (to not even be able to know if/when he was going to be involved or what to tell people). In his defense, he has insisted the whole time that he WANTS to be involved parent if the baby is his but his actions haven't shown that. Anyway...now he is insisting that he has a right to be at the birth (before a paternity test can even be done) and is threatening to take me to court for alienation and custody if I deny him access to HIS baby. I don't intend to deny him access long term, but I really am not comfortable with having him there right now. And I'm only allowed to have one other person there (I'm having a medically necessary c-section) and I'm also afraid that if he doesn't show up, that I'll be left alone with no support (so I'd rather plan ahead for someone else to take "his" spot). I also honestly would like some time to recover and try to breastfeed the baby in peace before he comes by since he tends to stress me out and I want our initial bonding time to be positive (but would be fine with him coming by a few hours later to have some bonding time with her if he wants). Does he have any basis for his claims that this plan could be used against me in court as alienation? I can prove (via text messages) that I have made multiple efforts to include him throughout the pregnancy and that he has chosen to not be involved until this point and that he has explicitly stated that he didn't want to be involved until paternity was established (before he apparently changed his mind about the delivery). [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Dec 2018 10:04 AM PST Don't need financial advice, cuz there's no way in Hell she's signing for a house we're not living in. What I'm wondering is if it's even legal for a realtor to try this sketchy crap. Can people even just transfer mortgages like that? Or is this likely just sideways talk to get her to cosign? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Dec 2018 12:10 AM PST Location: Toronto, Ontario I am 7 months into my lease on my apartment. About 2 months ago our apartment came under new management by a new company. The new management company last Sunday sent out a letter to me and my neighbor (we are currently the only two people on our floor) telling us:
I don't have anywhere to go, and our landlord has basically told me:
The last week i have been playing phone tag with the LTB, and i have made a complaint however they keep telling me this can take up to a few months to resolve this. On top of this they keep telling me that i should expect a call from them within 2-3 weeks to go over my complaint and issue. Until then they basically told me that my land lord cannot change the locks. I am an extremely poor student, and after trying to find a lawyer they all want more money than i can even remotely afford to take on this issue. My concerns are what if they do change my locks, and throw out my stuff before the LTB can actually do something. Please help. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Dec 2018 11:58 AM PST Okay this not for me but for my grandparents. It's a two part situation which ties into one. This is just some context but my grandmother and her boyfriend, who I consider my grandpa, were never married but were together for more than 20 years my grandma was unhappy in the last few years and moved out of the state about two years ago. They remained good friends and my grandma still had most of her possessions at my grandpa's house. Just this year my grandpa was declared mentally unwell because of a brain disease. He was declared a ward of the state and appointed a guardian and put in a nursing home. Heres some statistics: the nursing home he is currently in is about 80k for a year. He has only been there just over 6 months. He currently has a dollar in his wallet and has had the same dollar since march. They even took a twenty dollar bill from him just because they could. They took every single thing that he owns and sold most of it at auction. Without letting him choose what he wanted to keep. And then the money just sorta disappeared. His total possessions including his house adding up to about 300k or more. For a while they had his phone turned off and he wasnt able to contact anybody. He is still very much functioning and able to walk around easily. Here's where my grandma's part comes into play: she still had most of her possessions there at his house. She owned her own business and had recently retired and closed the business but all her equipment and everything was still in his house. They told her that she needed to "prove what was hers". She explained to them that her name and her business name was all over the business stuff and that she could tell them where everything was and what the items were. A lot of very expensive specialized equipment and all of her personal and family items. They basically told her that that wasnt good enough and then they demanded that she pay them them money for something that they claimed was his that she had sold but she had every legal right to sell it because it wasn't his. They also said that she had no legal right to any of his things because they were not married. Then apparently they had the auction and nobody knows what happened to all the leftover stuff or the money from it. Even I had some stuff at their house but it was trivial and not nearly as bad as what my grandparents have lost. My grandma said to me the other day that it kind of feels like losing everything in a fire because she lost so much and it's just gone forever. Most items can be replaced but family heirlooms and things cant be. So if the money didn't go to his care or bills and he has no access to any of it and cant hire a lawyer for himself because they took everything from him. He said that they were discussing possibly letting him get out of the nursing home and have a caretaker that stops by a few times a day to help him out. He will no longer have a house or any money. Is any of this right or legal? What should I do or tell them to do to help with this situation. Is there any point in hiring a lawyer? Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Edit: Location, wisconsin [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Dec 2018 09:10 AM PST Admittedly, that title sounds pretty juvenile, but I have had exes since this guy and there were some questionable private back and forth sexy talk etc. I just feel really violated, I have the right to privacy. I'm not sure this is the right thread, but I figure there must be some other RCMP members here who could give an opinion of its worth reporting. Backstory: We dated for like a year, he got really nasty at the end of our relationship and told me I was a mirage, a siren and I wasn't Christian enough for him. shrugs I never pretended to be anything other than myself. He'd freak out when I even wore yoga pants around another guy. He's the kind of guy who would want to prove to himself that he's right about me and make himself feel better. Snapchat periodically booted me out of my account and I just thought it was a glitch or the app updated itself or something, it's been happening literally since we broke up, I never put two and two together though. Snapchat has a new security feature that tells you when someone signs into your snap and they think it's suspicious. I was snapping across the country and he signed in on the other side, it noted the exact town (where I know he's been posted now). Obviously it didn't state his name, but it's an older password I forgot to change and he is the ONLY person on this planet who knows it. When we were dating he got really controlling and made me give him my passwords to social media - it was my mistake for forgetting to change it on snap. Obviously I just changed it now though. Is it even worth trying to do something or report him to the RCMP where he works? I know it was my fault for forgetting to change my password.. This guy is a police officer, he's supposed to help people and be ethical - but I just feel so violated and creeped out. It's been two years and that's stalker-y. [Living in Canada FYI] [link] [comments]  |
| Daugther is a Meth Addict and wasting away, what can parents do? Please help! Posted: 02 Dec 2018 05:35 AM PST My best friend's (let's call him X) daughter (let's call her Y), who just turned 18, has been using meth for a while now. when she was still a minor, they tried many rehab centers but didn't work out. she was kicked out a few for running away, stealing liquor, DUI, etc. now she is an adult the situation becomes dire. Due to her DUI she was on probation. She met with her probation officer with drugs in her pocket and failed random drug test and was put in jail for a few days. Then They put her in a out-of-town detox facility and she ran away! Fortunately was found a few days later Now she is home locked in her room doing meth all the time. Her parents are so afraid she runs away they can't do anything. 'X' even took her to get needles. It is such a tragic situation. What can the parents, who loves and still provides everything they can for 'Y' do? what are their options? 'X' became depressed (who wouldn't?) and cut off all contacts. the fragmented information I gathered came from a mutual friend who still exchanges text infrequently. Right now the PO suggests 'Y' do outpatient care twice a week. She will be randomly tested for drug and if she fails three times she will be put in jail for several months. we are worried before that happens 'Y' would just run away, sell her body for drug or worse. They are in California. What can they do? how can we help? Can we report her and have her locked up in jail now? It might at least cut off her drug source. Is there any involuntary detox lock down facilities in California (she is an adult so can't be forced like when she was a junior)? Where can they turn for legal advice and support? Never thought this would happen to someone so dear to me. We are totally ignorant and unprepared to deal with this. Please, I beg you, please help us, advice us, guide us, if you know anything we can do, we are desperate. The situation is going down the drain quickly. Please help! ---- Update 12/2/2018 15:30pm ---- Thanks for all the responses so far, but i think i missed one crucial and tragic fact in this case: My friend will NEVER ever abandon his children. He would die for her gladly no matter how bad the situation is. I know most the suggestions are along the line of 'cut the tie', but it is absolutely not an option. Her parents will do anything and everything to keep her safe at least. I know they are taken advantages of, but it is who they are. There is unfortunately no debate or argument whatsoever about this point. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Dec 2018 07:01 AM PST So, I was an idiot and got caught up in a scam trying to sell my car. Long story short, buyer texted saying he wanted the car but could not get it so he was having someone shop it to him. He sent a cashier's check with an extra $2000 that he said was for the shipper. Told me to send 2 money transfers of $900 each to shipper. One went through and the other didn't. Said shipper wouldn't accept cash and tried to get me to do other things like Bitcoin. Li told him I could write a check or have cash ready for the shipper, and the butter has been quiet since. Is there any way for me to get out of this without being legally liable for anything? I love in Utah if that helps. The money for the shipper was sent to Florida. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Dec 2018 12:58 AM PST I'm so so so angry right now. I moved from Europe to America for uni and roomed with this girl who's vegan, has animal rights posters all over the wall, and tries to push me to be vegan. Today, while I was not in the dorm, she went through my wardrobe and took away my fur coats. Those coats were more than $5000 a piece. Granted, I shouldn't have brought them, but my parents insisted. I asked her what she has done to them and she told me smugly that she has gotten rid of them because it hurts the animals. I kicked her out of our room and didn't let her back. It's late right now. What do I do? What CAN I do? I'm a US citizen. I have no proof that I own fur coats and don't have evidence that she threw it away. She's insane [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Dec 2018 12:15 PM PST This happened about 20 minutes ago, but there's more to it then him just slipping. The delivery driver pulled up to the front of the house on the road, stepped over the curb and snow, and walked to our front porch area. We signed the receipt and got the food, and on his way back he stepped back off the curb and slipped in between his car and the curb. It should be noted that we have no sidewalk. I saw that he was on the ground so I rushed back out side and helped him so he was at least sitting in his seat instead of on the ground in the snow. He called for an ambulance but then I volunteered to drive his car to the emergency room, which is only down the road, that way he could save on that cost. He agreed and cancelled the ambulance and I took his car and helped him get into the building and then I walked home. He was very grateful to me and a nice man, no mention of whether or not he believed this was our fault. Now, it should be noted that my driveway was not plowed, but it was enterable. And my driveway door entrance was cleared off. My husband always had a plan to clear the driveway during halftime of the football game we were watching, so when I got home he was shoveling. I made him stop because I didn't want it to look like we were lying about the state of our driveway when the accident occurred, although maybe I should have let him keep going, I'm not sure. I'm not sure if the driveway even had anything to do with the incident because he chose to enter from the front yard which was much more hazardous then just parking in the driveway and using that door. Does he have a case to sue since my driveway wasn't plowed, even though his car could have easily gotten in and my deck area was cleared? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Dec 2018 11:06 AM PST (Australia) Im not exactly sure what to do in this instance. She hasn't finished the book yet nor have I read a draft but she mentioned in several instances that events like my rape were in her book. I did not give her permission to talk about this nor did she ask for my approval. Is she legally allowed to do this? Is there anything I can do to stop it? I do not wish to have this published for private personal reasons. [link] [comments]  |
| Someone from reddit is threatening me using an encrypted email Posted: 02 Dec 2018 07:21 AM PST Hello, I'm 26/F from TX and I have a throwaway reddit account. It was my NSFW reddit account. Someone somehow found my personal email & my academic email. I'm not sure how but they found a coworker of mine on LinkedIn and EMAILED me a screen shot of his linkedin profile and wrote me, "I'm sending him everything tomorrow if I don't hear back from your promptly. I mean everything." Everything means my sexy pictures, I didn't have face shown but just my body. I'm pretty scared. I didn't think anyone would care enough to dig up my life like that. What should I do? Should I ask my coworker to tighten his linkedin? He's VERY big on using it and he gets so many views and comments. He's ALWAYS on it. Idk what to do. I'm so so so scared. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Dec 2018 03:19 PM PST I will try to make this as comprehendible as I can. In April 2011 my dad was murdered in his home in Iowa. His body was found 2-3 days after his death laying on the floor in a spare room that was used for storage. He was naked and had a vacuum cord wrapped around his throat that had been cut off a nearby vacuum cleaner. The police said initially it was "the typical auto-erotic asphyxiation" case and ruled it an accidental death. Some background, my father lived alone on a 7-acre ranch out in rural Iowa. After my mother and him divorced in 2006 he started hanging around meth heads. Anyways, the situation made no sense to us with him being in the storage room with dirty wooden floors as opposed to his bedroom that was one room over (or in any of the remaining 3 bedrooms). I was in the Army at the time and only had a week to deal with everything. My sister, who was 16 at the time and was very close to my dad, started talking to everybody. Eventually some people mentioned to her that this guy, who we will call Person A, had gotten drunk and bragged about choking a guy to death the previous week. My sister went and had a conversation with said guy without him knowing who she was and after some probing he boasted about doing it. It should be noted this guy is a drug addict. Well, the police said they couldn't use it since he didn't know he was being recorded. They said they were sorry but there was nothing they could do. This is a small town (10,000 people) but is not limited in resources by any means. Two months later a good friend of mine heard the same guy bragging in the bar, drunk, that he had killed my dad. I wasn't close to my dad at that point and had already lost two of my closest friends in Afghanistan and Iraq, so emotionally I just didn't feel like pursuing anything since the case had been closed. Fast forward 11 years to today. I am not going to try to explain the personal connections, as it is confusing, but the person living in my father's old house, Person B, got invited out to go fishing with a rural neighbor he didn't know. He accepted since they were neighbors. While they were fishing the guy, Person C, got drunk and told this man that he and his brother (Person A) in 2011 had broken into Person B's property (my dads old home) and choked the owner to death. The current owner, Person B, was semi-traumatized and called and told his friend about it. His friend happened to be friends with my sister and she eventually put the pieces together. Person B does not know my sister and did not know my dad. It was pure luck that his friend he told happened to be friends with my sister. My question is, what can I do? I think a good starting point would be to get the entire police report (something that I never saw, I was just told they ruled it an accidental suicide) and see what the police did. I have always known he was murdered, and we were fairly certain we knew who it was (Person A), but not we have a separate person admitting it too who happens to be Person A's brother. I am reaching out to some friends who are detectives in the state to seek advice, but Reddit is usually very helpful from what I have seen. Any input is appreciated because while I am not too emotional about it, this incident almost destroyed my younger sister and I want her to have closure. EDIT: Thank you everyone who responded. Some good advice that will definitely help. I reached out to a nearby city's chief of police and a retired state officer who are both friends of mine. They essentially offered the same advice Reddit did as well as offered connections and help to the right people if it fails at the local level. Thanks! TL/DR: Dad was killed in 2011 and we suspected it was a murder. Police ruled it an accidental death despite someone admitting to people he killed him. Today, December 1st 2018 I found out that that person's brother bragged to the current owner of my dad's old house he and his brother murdered my dad in 2011. [link] [comments]  |
| I'm at my wits end with my pot smoking neighbors Posted: 02 Dec 2018 09:03 AM PST Hi all FYI, I am in NYC. For the past year or so my neighbors below me (I'm on the third floor of a walkup), have been smoking so much weed that it comes up through my (and all my roommate's) heaters and will not dissipate until we open all our windows and start blasting fans. Even if it's below 30F outside we will do this because it is more comfortable to deal with temporary cold than sit in the filthy air creeping up. Because this was an issue last year as well, the building's repairman even helped out a bit and put sealant on any openings by the heater, but unfortunately it has not helped much. It's even gotten to the point that we have taken our own towels and smother the heaters to prevent more of the smell from coming in. Now, I am not against smoking weed (I smoke occasionally), but if I had a neighbor who was uncomfortable with my smoking I would be absolutely mortified and would stop immediately. But not these girls. I have the phone number of one of them downstairs and have asked multiple times for them to take it to a well ventilated area instead. I'm often met with ("oh sorry" to "there's no one smoking here, sorry!" to "I'll tell them to do it somewhere else"). I could hear one of them one night boasting about how they bought an ounce of weed and would smoke it all pretty quickly (which led to my roommates and I being inundated with smoke at 8 am). They also smoke cigarettes as well. Also, the real kicker is that they have instagram posts showing their weed pipes and cigarette packs in their rooms, as well as drinking on the subway, AND marijuana growing (one plant) in their room. I have screenshots of all of this too. The super for our building has talked to them in person twice already, but at times the smoking seems to get even worse. I have the feeling that because I'm in NYC, law enforcement will not give a shit about this but I am seriously at my wits end. I hate coming home, opening my door, and feeling like I live with a skunk and that I then have to let in freezing air just so I can get rid of the smell. So, any suggested next steps to nip this in the butt will be truly appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| I was bitten by a customers dog at work in a large retail pharmacy Posted: 02 Dec 2018 10:46 AM PST So I'm a pharmacy intern who works in a large retail pharmacy in NYC. Not going to name which one, but it's one of those with a shopping area/front store and a pharmacy in the back. I was on the clock on a Friday, when a customer came up and asked where a certain item was. Being a OTC medicine, I showed her where it was. We are trained and told to never point where something is l, but to come out and escort the person there. She had her dog on a leash but at the time it was really small, the pharmacy was hectic so I didn't really notice it. When the customer asked me if another item was sugar and dye free, I bent down to grab it to check, and without any warning her dog bit me in the forearm. At the time, I was swamped with work and didn't think much about it because I wanted to get back to the pharmacy. The customer apologized and just walked away and left the store. When I had to go to the bathroom, I checked the bite and realized I was bleeding a little. I quickly reported this to my pharmacist, store manager and (took a while) workers comp and hr department. My pharmacist gave me a tetanus shot, and I'm going to the hospital to check for rabies just in case. My workers comp doesn't activate til the next business day which was Monday. Is there anything else I should do? The store doesn't allow dogs unless it's a service dog in the store. This isn't really the responsibility of the pharmacy but more of the front store employees. [link] [comments]  |
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